Description
Provide quality care for clients from culturally diverse backgrounds! Transcultural Nursing, 8th Edition shows you how to apply assessment and intervention strategies to individuals from a variety of different cultures. Based on Giger and Davidhizer's unique transcultural model, this text helps you design culturally sensitive care with use of the six key aspects of cultural assessment: communication, time, space, social organization, environmental control, and biologic variations. Written by nursing educators Joyce Newman Giger and Linda G. Haddad, Transcultural Nursing shows how an understanding of cultural variations and individual patient needs will help you provide safe and effective care.- NEW co-author Dr. Linda Haddad is an internationally recognized cultural scholar who has taught nursing around the globe, has acted as an advisor and coordinator for the World Health Organization, and has published over 30 scholarly articles on nursing with a focus on understanding the cultural implication to care.- UPDATED! Cultural chapters are completely revised to reflect the shifting experiences of cultural groups in our society.
Table of Contents
PART ONE: FRAMEWORK FOR CULTURAL ASSESSMENT1. Introduction to Transcultural Nursing2. Communication3. Space4. Social Organization5. Time6. Environmental Control7. Biological VariationsPART TWO: APPLICATION OF ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION TECHNIQUES TO SPECIFIC CULTURAL GROUPS8. African Americans9. Mexican Americans10. Navajos (Diné)11. Appalachians12. American Eskimos: Th Yup'ik and Inupiat13. Japanese Americans14. Afghans and Afghan Americans 15. Russian Americans16. Chinese Americans17. Filipino Americans18. Vietnamese Americans19. East Indian Hindu Americans20. Haitian Americans21. Jewish Americans22. Korean Americans23. French Canadians of Quebec Origin24. Puerto Ricans25. Nigerian Americans26. Ugandan Americans27. Jordanian Americans28. Cuban Americans29. Amish Americans30. Irish AmericansAppendix A: Answer Key for Review QuestionsIndex
